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...WESTWORLD was written by Michael Crichton, author of the novel from which The Andromeda Strain was adapted. Here, making his debut as a director, he provides mechanical film making to match his machine-tooled prose. He posits an amusement park for adults, run by computer technicians and scientists, where the customers pay plenty to live out their elaborate, generally adolescent fantasies. The hero (Richard Benjamin) dresses up as a cowboy and gets to spend a week in a replica of a Western town, where he becomes involved in saloon brawls, witnesses bank robberies, goes upstairs with the ladies who hang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

Brynner). Benjamin also gets to gun down Brynner on a couple of occasions, since Brynner, like all the residents of Westworld, is a robot. The automatons weary of the monotony and indignity of their life and rebel or, more properly, run amuck, as they are wont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Quick Cuts | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

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